South East Lancashire was a county constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It was represented by two Members of Parliament. The constituency was created by the Reform Act 1867 by the splitting of the South Lancashire constituency into South-West and South-East divisions.
The constituency was abolished by the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885, being divided into eight single member divisions of Eccles, Radcliffe-cum-Farnworth, Gorton, Heywood, Middleton, Prestwich, Stretford and Westhoughton.
Boundaries
This constituency comprised the Salford hundred of Lancashire except for those parts of the hundred lying in the Parliamentary boroughs of Ashton-under-Lyne, Bolton, Bury, Manchester, Rochdale, Salford and Stalybridge.
Members of Parliament
Constituency created (1868)
Election1st Member1st Party2nd Member2nd Party 1868 Algernon Egerton Conservative John Snowdon Henry Conservative 1874 Edward Hardcastle Conservative 1880 Robert Leake Liberal William Agnew Liberal 1885 Constituency abolished
Elections
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